Page 13 of Claimed By the Alien Barbarian

“You have no choice.”

That got my back up. “Don’t go alpha on me. I’m the one with the weapons, not you.”

Setting his spear on the ground beside his outstretched leg, he scoffed. “You’re a tiny thing. If I say you’re coming with me, you are.”

I enjoyed a bit of alpha in my guy as much as the next person, but this alien was taking things too far.

“You’re barely strong enough to lean against a tree long enough to go pee,” I said with a smile curling my lips. “Yet you think you can make me leave my cozy campsite to travel around the countryside with you?” My laugh barked out. “You and what army, dude? In case you didn’t notice, I’m the one in control of this sit—”

He leaped from his sitting position and barreled into me, sending me to the ground, him taking the brunt of the fall before he rolled me onto my back with him looming over me. A few twists of his hand, and he’d not only yanked my bow from me and tossed it aside, but he’d also pinned my wrists above my head.

I bucked and kicked, trying some of the moves my mother had drilled into me from the time I was small, but he was so much bigger than me. Stronger.

And determined.

With his legs bracing my hips, he caged me with his upper body. “What were you saying about being in control of the situation, my pretty mate?”

Chapter 6

Nevarn

Ireleased her wrists, and she smacked my arms. “Get off me.” Her harsh bellow sent her pet scrambling into the woods.

When she tried to chop her hand up against my chin, I grabbed her hands and held them over her head again.

My mate had solid defensive skills. If she was bigger,I’dbe the one pinned to the ground beneath her, a thought that made my cock shift beneath my pants.

I liked having her beneath me too much, but again, I reminded myself that I was recently injured, and a male should woo his mate before he tried to claim her.

From the way she continued to buck against me, wooing might take at least one day.

My cock had its own ideas and rose beneath my pants.

She stilled and anger churned in her eyes. “You . . . You . . . Alien!”

“Here,youare the alien.”

She twisted her legs, trying to get them between mine before flopping back on the ground, her gorgeous eyes widening. “I can’t believe you’re turned on by something like this. This is notprimal play. One, I didn’t run, and two, you did not catch me, so you do not get to claim me as your prize.”

I had no idea what she was talking about, but I loved how feisty she was. Wooing needed to commence immediately.

Since I’d proven my point, I levered myself up and off her and backed away, my wounds throbbing more than I liked.

“I’m sorry,” I said, dipping forward in a careful bow. “I’ll make this up to you.”

“No more pinning me to the ground, or you won’t survive long enough to make up for anything.” She scrambled to her feet and grabbed her bow, notching an arrow and aiming it at my head. “Get it?”

“Kill me,” I said, keeping my hands loose at my sides. “My old clan would agree I deserve it.”

She lowered her bow, though she kept the arrow cocked. “I told you I don’t think you killed her.”

I couldn’t believe how grateful I felt at her words. She barely knew me, yet she trusted my word when my grandfather and so many of my own people hadn’t. “I was banished for her death. Only a few males believed me when I protested my innocence. When I left my clan, those who believed me left with me. I’m traedor of a new clan, but it’s small.” I stiffened my spine and met her eye. “But we are a good clan. This I swear.”

A growling cry echoed in the woods on my left, and she jolted, swinging her bow around to aim at whatever might attack.

“You’re strong, and I bet you shoot true,” I said. “But that arrow won’t penetrate the hides of the creatures coming our way.”

“A pack of wolf-pony hybrids nearly got me within a day of my arrival,” she whispered, her wild gaze flicking from one edge of the clearing to the other. “We need to build up the fire. Soaksome arrows in sap I collected from a tree. Or climb one of the trees. We’ll be safe up there.”

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